The powerful earthquake off the coast of the Indonesian island of Sumatra on Dec. 26, 2004, triggered a tsunami that impacted ...

On 26 December 2004, a magnitude 9.1 undersea earthquake struck 240km west of Sumatra, Indonesia, rupturing the greatest ...

Survivors and victims' relatives will this week mark the 20th anniversary of the 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake and tsunami, ...

Chief Herald photographer Nick Moir flew into Banda Aceh the day after the Boxing Day tsunami. He found a city turned upside ...

In minutes, the calm of a Boxing Day morning was ripped apart, the couple and their baby daughter swept away when their house collapsed as a black wall of seawater barreled through the city of Banda ...

A survivor of the 2004 Boxing Day tsunami has recalled the moment he was awoken by “screaming and shouting”, two decades on.

Twenty minutes later, a tsunami with waves travelling at up to 500 miles per hour crashed into the coastal city of Banda Aceh ...

In front of Saudah's house on Indonesia's Sumatra island lie two damaged coast guard ships, washed ashore by a tsunami 20 ...

Trauma still lingers on for survivors of the deadly tsunami that hit Thailand 20 years ago. The Indian Ocean tsunami struck a ...

illagers filing a forest and land fire lawsuit against three pulp and paper companies in South Sumatra have accused the defendants of “delaying” the ongoing legal process by not immediately ...

The worst affected area was northern Sumatra, where more than 120,000 people ... A splurge in reconstruction has transformed the worst-hit city Banda Aceh. More than 100,000 houses were rebuilt ...

Enggano was formed by oceanic crust and is today slightly larger than the city of Detroit. It never joined to the mainland of Indonesia’s main western island of Sumatra, meaning Enggano is host ...